( )" , r\, é'. \ ') QI(r "'" t. ! - , " ^^/ i:I1: *' ." '? . . -<<C>o. . ø. ._n. ox). t : '^^ ............ Yo^"^"........ (75 j, f . "Y , P !<<. " " ;; rt :: :: . , . ><< .. Y >>- , J ù\ :" "J- pj:) , "7 ..oo!o' Y <} -- '" -" - >' . ? ".'"-. _",A I 6:r" , ' ! . .:--: . ! I .........._' -:-.-;^" Z :-, _:... t; " " . ,?I/ .. '" $ 4S .1 M.'" :::. . .' f t ""X ,, ^.;:... " '- '? rf Î . P"î t l -<< "'I' ., ". ".# , : \ __ Ii ,.- t .-.... Y,,' ';'" ,.." - { . .. J ,..' , , 1.- ..- J ,Y ............" . it/"" ð : ." -- .' ^ :."Y ': '-:-'.:_:.,:.' ;Y, '. ,." .- , "'"" 'f. ! t j".. . ': ,þ . tf ... " ., ".- "'" I ' . >.. f SON u ':::.CI<J t-J ç. ...t:JRp J I \ $:M .t .. "f 1 '1 "! < '-"" ,- 1 .. ,1 ,. . 0( ((1 t)s not guing to be all roses) Son. Y ou)ll get a lot of bellyaches about irreplaceable land,narJ s and the desecration of o tr arclzitectural Izeritage.)) this one of Karvo's bloody tricks?" A dangerous moment! Moral na- <.....; tures are not born suddenly. Chatty gave a violent grip of righteousness to her leg. He spoke in a righteous voice, not forgetting to put SOl11e of the ginger of the underhand in it. "My job's at stake, too," he said out of the corner of his mouth. "I don't knoV\ about YOll, but I know what I'rn doing. \Ve're going together to rescue him. \,r e've got to save th'1t man, between us. It's worth ten thousand a year to me. But money's nothing. I don't know wh r I should Sdve him- Well, 1 do know. It's for you." She stuck to it. "I'm going to raIse hen at the Gare de Lyon," she said. "I've got their seat numbers. I'll turn the dining car upside down. 1'11-" "No, darling. Listen to me. Wait till we get to Venice. The Paris press is no good to you. The reporters win be in Venice." Chatt) made one of his body-wreck- ing efforts and sent up a hard stare into Magnolia's eyes. He noted with sati - faction that when she removed his hand from her leg she did so with a pnmness that must have been a new thing for her. Months afterward, Chatty told Karvo that until that moment with <t o lVIagnolia, and in spite of all his ex- perience, he had never realized what genius owes to lucky InsIghts. The plan was clumsy and full of risks. You had to choose between eVIls. Better a scene at the Gare de Lyon-without the press-than a scene at Venice; the thing to avoid was something that had not, thank God, got into Magnolia's stupid head. She could easIly have flown to VenIce on her own and waited to trap Karvo at the Gritti as he arrived. \Vhy didn't she think of that? "1 tumbled on the obvious," Chatty said. "My task was to encourage this new growth of virtue in Magnolia. There is a detective in every virtuous woman. Yau know--'l'm having my husband followed.' It was the idea of following }ou that had narrowed her . d " mIn. He had clinched it with MagnoLa quickly, there in the restaurant. "Show me that ticket," he shouted at her. I-Ialf bewildered, she got It out of her bag. He took it and said, "Let .me have it. 'Ve'll fly to Paris while Maureen is being sick in the Channel, and pick up the traIn there." MagnolIa got up from the table with a look of dawning rIghteousness on her face. ("She looked ready to sing 'Fight the Good Fight,' " Chatty said later.) "J ad111it I was wrong about you, Chatty," she said. C HATTY went back to Kàrvo. "\, ell? " said Karvo vehelnen th ""T V ' . . } I ' \Í e re gOIng wzt 1 you. can t stop her. " "Chatty! " shouted Karvo. "Listen. You have to break problelns into their pdrts. That's the first prin- ciple. First of all, I am restoring her virginity. I al11 doing that for self-pro- tection. " "Stop being so clever. I have to think of the press. She can't come with me. That's the whole point." Chatty began a long fit of coughIng. He coughed up and down the sofa. "There's nothing to be done about I '''' ] I " 1 ' t 1at, 1e got out at ast. ve gone the whole hog with her." Karvo looked cynically and despis- ing]y at Chatty. Chatty understood the look. "No, I agree-not that," said Chatty, wiping his eyes. "Loyalty to the c0111pany does not go as far as that." Karvo growled at hÎ111. "\Ve shall tra vel in the back part of the train," said Chatty. "'T"'hat won't do, I tell you! " shouted Karvo. "This is serious." '''ron)', pictures have destroyed your